A statistical machine translation (SMT) system exhibits systematically lower BLEU scores when translating technical documents with heavy jargon. Which mechanism explains this effect?

💡 Explanation

The lower BLEU scores occur because the SMT system’s vocabulary lacks the domain-specific jargon, leading to frequent unknown word tokens and inaccurate translations; therefore, poor vocabulary coverage is the reason, rather than issues related to context vectors or network architecture which affect fluency more than accuracy.

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